Welcome to Office 365 for beginners.
My name is Elliot Munro, I work for GCITS on the Gold Coast of Australia.
We're an award winning Microsoft Partner who use the cloud to help growing businesses everywhere
get really productive, really fast.
So today we're going to be looking at how you can personalise the Office 365 login screen.
So this is the standard login screen when you go to portal.office.com, it comes up with
sign in with your work or school account, and you can change this to be your business
logo at the top, or your writing to do with your helpdesk or something like that and you
can have your own picture over here.
So for example when I type in my email address, elliot@gcits.com, go to the next screen, it
knows that I am part of Ozbizweb Group.
Or am I?
We rebranded in May 2015 when me and my two brothers merged our businesses, we're now
known as GCITS but I haven't gotten around to changing this page.
So I thought we'll hit two birds with one stone.
We'll change the branding and show you how you can change your own branding.
So we're going to log in here to Office 365.
And you need to be logged in as an administrator.
So when I sign in, I'm taken directly to the admin center.
If you're an admin and you're not taken directly here, you can click on the app launcher at
the top and then click Admin and it's gonna take you here.
Then we’re going to go down to Azure AD.
And we're going to click here, because Azure AD is actually what lets us customise the
branding for Office 365.
It's technically a separate subscription but Azure AD is the service that runs the identities
in Office 365 - so things like user security or multi-factor authentication or the branding
of the login screen.
And it does a bunch more things but we're only gonna focus on the branding right now.
So Azure AD, separate subscription, you have to sign up for it.
And I'm going to show you how you do that.
Now I've already signed up for Azure AD under this account, so I'm going to switch to an
account that doesn't have an Azure AD subscription and then we're going to do a test signup here.
You just go down to Admin Centers, Azure AD at the bottom, and then it takes us to the
Microsoft Azure Sign up.
So I did something silly there where I paused the recording and didn't start it again, and
I'm not going to do it again but I just clicked Next on those earlier screens and then it
brought me up at portal.azure.com, which is the new Microsoft Azure portal.
If you click Azure AD from the within that Office 365 admin center and you've already
previously signed up to Microsoft Azure, then it won't take you to this screen, it's going
to take you to manage.windowsazure.com.
That is the old portal - it's the default as of right now, as of the time we're filming
this.
So if this has happened to you and you end up at manage.windowsazure.com, go to the top
of the address bar here, and we're going to type portal.azure.com.
It's going to keep you signed in, but it's going to take you to the new portal where
we can manage Azure Active Directory.
So you'll be greeted with a screen that looks like this.
Now you may not have all the tiles here that I have, though you should have something on
the left hand side: More services, down here.
Now you can type Azure Active Directory, and we click on Azure Active Directory here.
So from here we have the company branding section where we can customise the text and
graphics your users see when they sign into your Azure AD.
That rhymes.
So then this blade's going to come up - company branding.
Now our status here is configured because we've set it up.
Yours is probably not configured.
We can edit the company branding, you can add company branding and it's gonna bring
up the company branding that we have.
Now this is where your pictures are required, or your company branding is required.
So this sign in page image has dimensions of 1420 by 1200.
And this one here is obviously going to replace this here, this big image.
So I've made one so I'm going to open that up, open branding, open illustration.jpg,
paste that there.
That does resize a little strange but hopefully it doesn't look like that.
I'm going to replace this banner image here which is the default Office 365 image.
And then we're going to replace that with our logo.
And then I'm going to, I'm gonna make some changes here - return to gcits.com.
The post-signout link URL is going to be gcits.com.
Sign in page background colour, I'll leave that.
But our square logo image, I will update, and I'm gonna update that to our GCITS square.
And again here.
And there's two images here because one is for a dark theme.
So you can upload a logo that is better on dark backgrounds if you have them but ours
are exactly the same.
Ok, so that's it.
We click save.
It's gonna update tenant branding.
So now we are done.
Just gonna make a new InPrivate window.
We go to portal.office.com.
Those changes have updated.
Now I'm looking at this straight away and I don't really like the design.
But I just threw this together quickly, there are a few mistakes.
This here, this colour, that should be - that should be gold.
And that finalist there, that's spelt wrong, that should be winner.
But um,
life is cruel.
And we did not win.
But, next year.
And I can also see here this logo is cut off a little bit, it might be because of the size
of my screen.
I'll zoom that out.
Still cut off a little bit.
That's the perfectionist in me, I'll fix that up too.
But that's how easy it is to change your Office 365 branding.
If you have any questions you can leave a comment or make an enquiry at our website.
Thankyou.